Haringey London Borough Council v Department of Children, Schools and Families and another – WLR Daily

Posted February 9th, 2009 in adoption, law reports by sally

Haringey London Borough Council v Department of Children, Schools and Families and another; [2009] WLR (D) 38

“S 84(4) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 did not require that the period of ten weeks referred to in that section be spent in the United Kingdom.”

WLR Daily, 6th February 2009

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Diggins v Condor Marine Crewing Services Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted February 9th, 2009 in employment tribunals, jurisdiction, law reports, ships, unfair dismissal by sally

Diggins v Condor Marine Crewing Services Ltd; [2009] WLR (D) 37

“The claimant, who lived in the United Kingdom and was employed as a chief officer on a ferry registered in Nassau which sailed from Portsmouth to the Channel Islands, returning to Portsmouth each working day, was entitled to bring a claim of unfair dismissal and was not excluded by the provisions relating to mariners in s 199 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.”

WLR Daily, 6th February 2009

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted February 6th, 2009 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Charlton v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2009] EWCA Civ 42 (06 February 2009)

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Clyde & Co Llp & Anor v New Look Interiors of Marlow Ltd & Anor [2009] EWHC 173 (QB) (06 February 2009)

High Court (Commercial Court)

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Bermuda) Ltd Partnership v BP Shipping Ltd [2009] EWHC 111 (Comm) (29 January 2009)

Source: www.bailii.org

R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (4) – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in disclosure, judgments, law reports, public interest, torture by sally

R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (4) [2009] EWHC 152 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 36

“A novel issue, the striking of a balance between the public interest in national security and the public interest in open justice, the rule of law and democratic accountability, lay at the heart of the court’s consideration of whether to restore passages, summarising information relating to an arguable case of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the claimant, which had been redacted from the court’s first open judgment at the request of the Foreign Secretary on grounds of national security. The rule of law required that the determination of where the balance lay was ultimately for the decision of the court.”

WLR Daily, 5th February 2009

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Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in byelaws, demonstrations, human rights, law reports, nuclear weapons by sally

Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23; [2009] WLR (D) 35

“Para 7(2)(f) of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston Byelaws 2007, which prohibited the right of any member of the Women’s Peace Camp to camp within controlled areas on land owned by the Secretary of State for Defence to protest against nuclear weapons was not justifiable and violated the rights to individual freedom of expression and to freedom of peaceful assembly protected by arts 10 and 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom.”

WLR Daily, 5th February 2009

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Yearworth and others v North Bristol NHS Trust – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in bailment, human tissue, law reports, negligence, psychiatric damage by sally

Yearworth and others v North Bristol NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 37; [2009] WLR (D) 34

“The sperm sample of a person undergoing chemotherapy treatment, stored by a hospital for his benefit for future use in case the treatment made him infertile, was property owned by him whose loss or damage entitled him to bring an action for negligence. Moreover, where the circumstances showed there was a bailment of the sperm to the hospital unit storing it, a cause of action for bailment could arise for its loss or damage sounding in damages for psychiatric injury and/or mental distress.”

WLR Daily, 5th February 2009

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Regina (TF) v Secretary of State for Justice – Times Law Reports

Posted February 6th, 2009 in law reports, mental health, prisons by sally

Regina (TF) v Secretary of State for Justice

Court of Appeal

“A prisoner could be transferred to a mental hospital at the end of his sentence, only if two doctors recommended it and his medical condition and treatability justified it.”

The Times, 6th February 2009

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Ratcliffe v Secretary of State for Defence – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in armed forces, asbestos, law reports, war pensions, widows by sally

Ratcliffe v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 39; [2009] WLR (D) 33

“A woman who had been the partner of a naval officer for over 25 years at the time of his death from disease said to derive from exposure to asbestos during his employment was in an analogous situation to that of a married woman. However, the Secretary of State for Defence was able to justify a distinction in war pension entitlement between her case and that of a married survivor.”

WLR Daily, 4th February 2009

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ZT (Kosovo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in asylum, law reports by sally

ZT (Kosovo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 6; [2009] WLR (D) 32

“When an applicant whose claim for asylum was refused as ‘clearly unfounded’ under s 94(2) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 made further submissions, the Secretary of State had then to go on to consider whether those further submissions were fresh claims which ‘created a realistic prospect of success’ under r 353 of the Immigration Rules (HC 395).”

WLR Daily, 4th February 2009

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Holmes-Moorhouse v London Borough of Richmond upon Thames – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in children, homelessness, housing, law reports, residence orders by sally

Holmes-Moorhouse v London Borough of Richmond upon Thames [2009] UKHL 7; [2009] WLR (D) 31

“When a court in family proceedings made a shared residence order providing for children to spend alternate weeks with each of their parents, and the father was homeless, a housing authority was not obliged, on account of the order, to regard the father as a person in priority need of accommodation on the ground that dependent children might reasonably expected to reside with him.”

WLR Daily, 4th February 2009

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted February 5th, 2009 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Lafayette, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 3238 (18 December 2008)

Pittman, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 72 (14 January 2009)

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

TK (Burundi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 40 (04 February 2009)

Ratcliffe v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 39 (03 February 2009)

A (A Child), Re [2009] EWCA Civ 41 (05 February 2009)

Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23 (05 February 2009)

High Court (Chancery Division)

HM Revenue & Customs v David Baxendale Ltd [2009] EWHC 162 (Ch) (05 February 2009)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Rastrum Ltd & Anor v Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government & Anor [2009] EWHC 160 (Admin) (04 February 2009)

Mauro v Government of the United States of America [2009] EWHC 150 (Admin) (04 February 2009)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Carillion JM Ltd v Bath & North East Somerset Council & Anor [2009] EWHC 166 (TCC) (05 February 2009)

Source: www.bailii.org

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted February 5th, 2009 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Mauro v Government of the United States of America [2009] EWCA Civ 150 (04 February 2009)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Golden Key Ltd, Re Insolvency Act 1986 [2009] EWHC 148 (Ch) (04 February 2009)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Rastrum Ltd & Anor v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor [2009] EWHC B4 (Admin) (temporary reference) (04 February 2009)

Mohamed, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs [2009] EWHC 152 (Admin) (04 February 2009)

Director of Public Prosecutions v Wright [2009] EWHC 105 (Admin) (04 February 2009)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Able Construction (UK) Ltd v Forest Property Development Ltd [2009] EWHC 159 (TCC) (27 January 2009)

High Court (Patents Court)

Bending Light Ltd, Re [2009] EWHC 59 (Pat) (30 January 2009)

Source: www.bailii.org

House of Lords Judgments: What’s new?

Posted February 4th, 2009 in law reports by sally

Z T (Kosovo) (Respondent) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant) [2009] UKHL 6 (4 February 2009)

Holmes-Moorhouse(FC) (Original Respondent and Cross-appellant) v London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Original Appellants and Cross-respondents) [2009] UKHL 7 (4 February 2009)

Marks and Spencer plc (Appellants) v Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Customs and Excise (Respondents) [2009] UKHL 8 (4 February 2009)

Source: www.parliament.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted February 4th, 2009 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Tarn Insurance Services Ltd v Kirby & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 19 (27 January 2009)

Yearworth & Ors v North Bristol NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 37 (04 February 2009)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Grant v Bragg [2009] EWHC 74 (Ch) (22 January 2009)

Data Direct Technologies Ltd v Marks & Spencer Plc [2009] EWHC 97 (Ch) (26 January 2009)

Mobilx Ltd v HM Revenue & Customs [2009] EWHC 133 (Ch) (03 February 2009)

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Lord Chancellor v Rees & Ors [2008] EWHC 3168 (QB) (19 December 2008)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd, R (on the application of) v Wolverhampton City Council & Anor [2009] EWHC 134 (Admin) (03 February 2009)

Source: www.bailii.org

Regina (Al-Saadoon and Another) v Secretary of State for Defence – Times Law Reports

Posted February 4th, 2009 in detention, human rights, Iraq, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Regina (Al-Saadoon and Another) v Secretary of State for Defence

Court of Appeal

“Iraqi detainees held in a United Kingdom internment facility in Iraq on the authority of the local criminal court were not under the jurisdiction of the UK for the purposes of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

The Times, 4th February 2009

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Raja v Van Hoogstraten (No 9) – Times Law Reports

Posted February 4th, 2009 in civil procedure rules, law reports, sequestration, setting aside by sally

Raja v Van Hoogstraten (No 9)

Court of Appeal

“Since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules, applications for the setting aside of orders made without notice were governed by rule 23.10, and determined by the court exercising the discretion given by that rule in accordance with the overriding objective to do justice.”

The Times, 4th February 2009

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Egan v Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust – Times Law Reports

Posted February 4th, 2009 in burden of proof, health & safety, law reports by sally

Egan v Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust

Court of Appeal

“Where a hospital employee was injured using a mechanical hoist to move a patient, the burden was on the employer to prove that it had taken appropriate steps to reduce any risk to the lowest reasonably practicable level.”

The Times, 3rd February 2009

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Persche v Finanzamt Lüdenscheid – Times Law Reports

Posted February 4th, 2009 in charities, EC law, gifts, income tax, law reports by sally

Persche v Finanzamt Lüdenscheid

Court of Justice of the European Communities

“Article 56 EC on the free movement of capital enabled eligible tax deductions on gifts made to charitable bodies in the taxpayer’s state also to be claimed on gifts made to charities within the European Union outside the taxpayer’s state.”

The Times, 3rd February 2009

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted February 3rd, 2009 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Campbell & Ors, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 50 (02 February 2009)

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Fosh v Cardiff University [2009] EWCA Civ 38 (03 February 2009)

Office of Fair Trading v Miller [2009] EWCA Civ 34 (03 February 2009)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Manning v King’s College Hospital NHS Trust [2009] EWHC 75 (Admin) (22 January 2009)

Sonea v Mehedinti District Court [2009] EWHC 89 (Admin) (23 January 2009)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

YCMS Ltd (t/a Young Construction Management Services) v Grabiner & Anor [2009] EWHC 127 (TCC) (31 January 2009)

Source: www.bailii.org

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted January 30th, 2009 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Dobson & Ors v Thames Water Utilities Ltd & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 28 (29 January 2009)

Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v Amway (UK) Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 32 (29 January 2009)

Salvage Wharf Ltd & Anor v G & S Brough Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 21 (29 January 2009)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Smith, R (on the application of) v HMP Belmarsh & Anor [2009] EWHC 109 (Admin) (29 January 2009)

High Court (Commercial Court)

NML Capital Ltd v The Republic of Argentina [2009] EWHC 110 (Comm) (29 January 2009)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Heath v Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd [2009] EWHC 103 (Ch) (29 January 2009)

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Wakefield (t/a Wills Probate and Trusts of Weybridge) v Ford & Anor [2009] EWHC 122 (QB) (29 January 2009)

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